Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician and academic (died 1857)

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

French mathematician (1789–1857)

Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy was a French mathematician, engineer, and physicist. He was one of the first to rigorously state and prove the key theorems of calculus, pioneered the field complex analysis, and the study of permutation groups in abstract algebra. Cauchy also…